Do you want your homebrew distributed nationally?

A new competition is giving Australia’s homebrewers the chance to have their beer recipes packaged and distributed to venues and bottle shops Australia-wide.

Jake Lindsay and Alvaro Maz, the founders of Hops Aboard launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $10,000 to fund the production of the winning recipe, and currently sitting at $4,000 they are just shy of halfway to their goal.

Beer & Brewer caught up with Lindsay to chat about the unique concept and how people can get involved.

“In the past four weeks we have raised $4k, so we’ve got another $6k to go. And even if we get to around $6k we will still be able to brew 3,000 litres of beer, which is a shit load.”

Both homebrewers themselves, the idea came to Lindsay and Maz because they wanted to give homebrewers the chance to share their beers with more than just their buddies.

“We have launched this almost like a pilot. We had a lot of conversations with bars and bottle shops prior to this and they were saying that the beer scene has really changed over the past six to 12 months and that their customers want to try something new all the time.

“So we thought this was a great way to keep a fresh supply on tap and to also help build the homebrewing community at the same time,” said Lindsay.